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			<description><![CDATA[ When looking at my utility bills, I wonder how accurate the measured number of KWHours of consumed electricity actually is. Does anybody on this board know of
any investigation where a field study of electrical meters was performed? I could imagine that the utility companies are very careful in making sure that the
meters make errors (and every technical device is subject to potential errors) benefitting the utility company and not their customers. If the accuracy of
these meters is not... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Roger Ebert reviews: "Collapse"  - Mike Ruppert ]]></title>
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<em>If this man is correct, then you may be reading the most important story in today&#39;s paper.</em>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Mexico's drug cartels siphon liquid gold ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Mexico&#39;s drug cartels siphon liquid gold
<br>
Bold theft of $1 billion in oil, resold in U.S., has dealt a major blow to the treasury
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MALTRATA, MEXICO -- Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion
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			<title><![CDATA[ New Matt Taibbi: Obama's Big Sellout ]]></title>
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Matt Taibbi,  Just on Cobert Report last night.   <u>Hot video interview clip</u> on the web, I sent out last week
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/258163/december-09-2009/matt-taibbi">http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/258163/december-09-2009/matt-taibbi</a>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A happy holiday season to everybody on this board! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Spend a lot (it&#39;s good for the economy) and eat less (it prolongs your life time). Enjoy life to the fullest and do not look back. Life is a one way road
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			<title><![CDATA[ Copenhagen – Prelude to Extinction? ]]></title>
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  The Peak Oil Crisis: Copenhagen - Prelude to Extinction?
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  By Tom Whipple
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  Wednesday, December 09 2009 12:55
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  As the Copenhagen meeting on climate change opens, we are getting mixed signals. At one extreme are the &quot;disbelievers,&quot; who say that serious
  consequences from global warming, if it is really happening, are still decades away so why should people be... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Examining Obama's rationale for escalating the war in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Potential For Fed To Hyperinflate ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Any body heard of this site? credible?
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<br>
<a name="announcement"></a> <a href="http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Potential_For_Fed_To_Hyperinflate">Potential For Fed
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			<title><![CDATA[ Nation By Nation (1Dec09) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p align="center">Nation By Nation &amp; Much Much More</p>

<p align="center">Freeworld, unite your struggles</p>
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<a style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" href="http://insurrectiondaily.blogspot.com/2009/12/nation-by-nation-1dec09.html">Nation By Nation (1Dec09)</a> 16-1Dec09 -- West
banks instead of giving loans are now in business of taking loans. West public officials now all work for west private concerns, spending their politiCIAn time
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Growing Disaster (Ethanol) ]]></title>
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<h1><a target="_blank" title="A Growing Disaster " href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/opinion/28harding.html?_r=1">A Growing
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<p>Midland, Mich.</p>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Is The U.S. In A ‘Superproject Void’? ]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ November 29, 2009
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Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades

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  By JASON DePARLE and <a title="More Articles by Robert Gebeloff" target="_blank" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/robert_gebeloff/index.html?inline=nyt-per"><font color="#000066">ROBERT GEBELOFF</font></a>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Climategate Scandal - Hide the decline ]]></title>
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The above chart is taken from the site <a title="" target="_blank" href="http://www.wtrg.com/prices.htm">Oil price history and analysis</a>.  It displays the
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			<description><![CDATA[ <a title="" target="_blank" href="http://www.thedailybell.com/608/Hiding-Evidence-of-Global-Cooling.html">Hiding the evidence on global cooling</a>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Building Xanadu in the Desert ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <a title="Dubai Default" target="_blank" href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/11/dubai-default.html">Dubai Default</a>
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  From Bloomberg: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=azd17alFNikQ&amp;pos=2">Dubai Debt Delay Rattles Confidence in Gulf
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			<title><![CDATA[ 15 symptoms of a Wall Street disease destroying democracy and capitalism ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p id="columnname" class="sixwide">Paul B. Farrell</p><img id="dred" src="http://i.mktw.net/_newsimages/columnists/farrell_paul.jpg" alt="Paul B. Farrell">
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<h1><a title="Goldman&#39;s secret moral pathology" target="_blank" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/15-signs-wall-street-pathology-is-spreading-2009-11-24?siteid=rss&amp;rss=1">Goldman&#39;s secret moral pathology</a></h1>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Three Saudi soldiers killed on Yemen border - report ]]></title>
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